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The National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA), formerly National Tumor Registrars Association, is a not-for-profit association representing cancer registry professionals and Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR) certificants. NCRA's primary focus is education and certification. Worldwide, there are over 5,800 NCRA members and nearly 4,500 CTRs.
The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, Inc. is a professional organization that develops and promotes uniform data standards for cancer registration; provides education and training; certifies population-based registries; aggregates and publishes data from central cancer registries; and promotes the use of cancer surveillance data and systems for cancer control and ...
The Cali Cancer Registry (Registro Poblacional de Cancer de Cali in Spanish) started in 1962 as a research program of the Department of Pathology of the University of Valle School of Medicine in Cali, Colombia. [17] Currently, Cali Cancer Registry is recognized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an entity of WHO. [18]
The Cancer Support Affiliate Network consists of 42 licensed affiliates, 150 satellite locations and a growing number of health care partnerships. [10] [11] Affiliates provide programs free of charge to anyone affected by cancer, including patients, survivors, caregivers, loved ones and children. [12]
Faculty-led virtual reality technology is used by the schools of dentistry, medicine, veterinary medicine, nursing, pharmacy and health professions. [23] In 2015, the Southern California Medical Museum opened on the WesternU campus. [24] [25] [26] The same year (2015), Pumerantz retired after 38 years as founding president. [27]
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Some of these include the administration of cancer research programs, training activities, core facilities with technology shared by investigators, and clinical trial management services. [ 2 ] In 2015, more than 353,000 new patients were enrolled in a clinical trial at an NCI-designated Cancer Center.
The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific first opened in 1977, and was the first osteopathic medical school to open in California after the merger between the California osteopathic medical board and the M.D. board in 1961, [6] the California College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons became an M.D. granting school (now the UC ...